London

Question 1

Themes to explore

Answer 1

-lack of power/ unbalanced power
-abuse of power / exploitation
-the effects of the exploitation of power

Question 2

I wander through each chartered street

Answer 2

-Chartered is something which is listed and regulated, the
streets are clearly controlled but it suggests the Thames, the
river likewise is controlled, nature controlled by man.
-Present a sense of ownership, inequality of power

Question 3

Runs in blood down Palace walls

Answer 3

-Everyone inside the palace walls are safe while the people outside that lack power so they suffer in pain
-Connotes all the soldiers that died fighting for the government

Question 4

And mark in every face I meet
Marks of weakness, marks of woe.

Answer 4

• People in power make others suffer.
  -Everyone in London is struggling if they dont have power living in misery
  -Creates a depressing sombre tone

Question 5

-In every cry of every Man,
-In every Infants cry of fear,
-In every voice: in every ban,

Answer 5

-The use of repetition “in every” is used to show the wide scale suffering
-“Infants cry of fear” Presents children lacked basic necessities in london
-Men are meant to be masculine expressing no emotion but due to the inequality of power emotions become overwhelming forcing them to “cry”

Question 6

How the youthful Harlots curse

Answer 6

-Harlots is a prostitute
-Blake explore the idea that society has become unstabled that the youth have to depend on sexual activities in order to survive.